Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

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• The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

  

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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

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• Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live